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Rebecca explains why keyword filtering in China is causing Chinese bloggers to use puns, visual and otherwise, to talk about banned topics. Say the wrong word and your blog might be “harmonized” out of existence…
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GREAT post by J. Nambiza Tungaraza about discussions of racism and identity in the Swahili blogosphere after a woman of Indian descent is named Miss Tanzania 2007
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Good story from the 2007 digital citizen indaba about what content is and isn’t appropriate in weblogs, and whether government control of speech on African blogs is constructive or repressive
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Belarussian president Lukashenko doesn’t like the amount of dissent he sees on the internet. So Belarussian activists give him his own internet, including LuJournal and LuTube!
September 14th, 2007 at 2:51 am
[...] out the Williams Blog, where Eric added me as part of the blogroll some time ago. I found this post by Ethan Zuckerman with a link to the creative use of puns by Chinese bloggers to get around government filters. The [...]